Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the stage of our acquaintance I was unaware of when to change the subject . |
| 2 | I was indifferent to anything outside myself , and I was conscious of not being prepared to live entirely in the mind . |
| 3 | Well , Jackie was a shooting champion before he was ever a driving champion and , listening to him recently at Gleneagles , when he was taking my neophyte self through the task of shooting at moving targets , I was conscious of how simply Jackie takes these complicated relations between brain and body . |
| 4 | I was conscious of only one ‘ person ’ — the house itself . |
| 5 | He allowed nuns to carry out baptisms , give communions , all of which was unheard of before " ( Sister Lucero ) . |
| 6 | Still worse , Joye took it on himself to revise Tyndale 's New Testament without authorisation in an edition which was full of unscholarly amendments . |
| 7 | The most interesting place I saw there was the university , which was full of very clever men , with very clever ideas . |
| 8 | They 'd rented a forklift truck which was incapable of actually carrying the wood . |
| 9 | She was proud of how Nora looked and loved to touch the material of her clothes . |
| 10 | The acting superintendent-nurse , Miss Worthington , was brought before the committee and questioned about the condition of certain bed-ridden patients , to which she replied that she was aware of only one case with a bedsore , and of two others who had already had them when they were brought in . |
| 11 | Suddenly she was aware of how little she knew Roman . |
| 12 | She was aware of how pathetic she was sounding , so she forced herself to stop . |
| 13 | As he did so his hand accidentally brushed against her bare leg , and suddenly she was aware of how little difference there was between the shorts she was wearing now and the swimsuit she had worn earlier . |
| 14 | She was conscious of neither time nor space . |
| 15 | She was conscious of how Tsu Ma looked at her . |
| 16 | He crossed one long leg over the other , and she was conscious of how virile and masculine he was . |
| 17 | With the death of the child , she felt that a cycle of her life had rolled to its conclusion , yet she was unsure of how to address the new beginning . |
| 18 | Maud , who was afraid of exactly this possibility , glowered whitely at him . |
| 19 | But it was capable of far more sophisticated applications , giving swift updating of average salaries and enabling Personnel Management to compare one company within the Group with another . |
| 20 | To her it was indicative of how he 'd come to view their relationship . |
| 21 | It was full of even more weasel and imprecise words than usual . |
| 22 | But I was still far too young to venture out in the world ; it was unheard of even for an older girl to leave her home and family and become independent . |
| 23 | Only a little thing , but he was frightened of where it might lead . |
| 24 | He was afraid of not measuring up as a lover and worried about his performance in bed . |
| 25 | He was afraid of how he might react if he confronted Zoe now . |
| 26 | He looked lost and nervous , as though he was unsure of where he was or why he had bothered to come . |
| 27 | He was aware of only one pay-out to a salmon farm , and he was not sure if that money had come from the emergency fund . |
| 28 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |